American literature final review

Which of these is NOT a literary era?

• Moderism

• Post-modernism

• Realism

• Pessimism

Who insisted that it is important to be well-liked (or well-known)?

• Allen Ginsberg

• Happy Loman

• Willy Loman

• Robert Frost

Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes were part of which literary movement?

• Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem Modernism

• Transcendentalism

• Optimism

What grants free speech, which includes freedom to read?

• First Amendment

• Declaration of Independence

• The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States

All books that are challenged are automatically banned from public libraries.

• True, because challenging and banning are the same.

• True, because anyone can ban a book from a public library.

• False, because most books that are challenged do not end up being banned in any way.

• False, because only poetry can be challenged.

Naturalism is closely related to...

• Nature

• California supermarkets

• Modernism

• Realism

Realism tends to be about ____, while Naturalism includes or is about ____.

• Lower classes, working classes

• Middle-upper classes, lower classes

• City life, rural life

• Real life, fiction

In which era did Arthur Miller write the play Death of a Salesman?

• Colonial

• Romantic

• Realism

• End of Modern/
  start of Post-modern

Although the exact dates vary among sources, the Modernist era is typically bookmarked by which two major events in history?

• Signing of the Declaration of Independence and World War I

• World War I and World War II

• The Roaring '20s and the Great Depression

• The Civil War and the Great Depression

Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Story" is about a character of The Lost Generation returning home from which war?

• Civil War

• World War 1

• World War 2

• Vietnam War